The history of the town of Gravesend in the county of Kent, and of the port of London,

Mode of access: Internet.

Old cottages and farmhouses in Kent and Sussex

Mode of access: Internet.

Nominations of Hon. Clark Kent Ervin, Janet Hale, and Linda M. Springer : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session on the nominations of Hon. Clark Kent Ervin, to be Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Hale to be Under Secretary for Management fotr the Department of Homeland Security, and Linda M. Springer to be Congroller of the Office of Federal Financial Management for the Office of Management and Budget, February 27, 2003.

Shipping list no.: 2003-0242-P.

Panama canal tolls : Speech of Hon. William Kent, of California, in the House of Representatives May 21, 1912.

Reprinted from the Congressional record.

The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent. Containing the antient and present state of it, civil and ecclesiastical;

Vol. 13 is a made-up volume containing maps and folded plans.

Research activities arising from the University of Kent

In this paper I describe research activities in the field of optical fiber sensing undertaken by me after leaving the Applied Optics Group at the University of Kent. The main topics covered are long period gratings, neural network based signal processing, plasmonic sensors, and polymer fiber gratings. I also give a summary of my two periods of research at the University of Kent, covering 1985–1988 and 1991–2001.

Aplicação pré-colheita de leveduras para o controle de podridões pós-colheita de manga Kent.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a eficiência da aplicação de leveduras pulverizadas durante o desenvolvimento dos frutos no campo, seguido de reaplicações pós-colheita, em comparação com produto comercial registrado para a cultura. O experimento foi conduzido no Campo Experimental de Bebedouro, da Embrapa Semiárido (Petrolina, PE) com quatro tratamentos: com fungicida pré e pós-colheita; Sacharomyces sp. LF; Pichia kudriavzevii L9; controle sem aplicação de fungicida pré ou pós-colheita, apenas com imersão em solução de CMC. Houve efeito significativo dos agentes de controle biológico sobre a incidência e a severidade das podridões com aplicação de tratamentos pré e pós-colheita, resultado este estatisticamente similar ao tratamento com fungicida. Os tratamentos com Sacharomyces sp. LF e P. kudriavzevii L9 apresentaram risco de desenvolvimento de podridão 3,2 e 3,5 vezes menor que o controle, respectivamente. Esses valores são similares a 3,7, alcançado com a aplicação de fungicida.

Aplicação de isolados de leveduras para o controle de podridões pós-colheita em manga cv. Kent.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a eficiência da aplicação de isolados de leveduras como alternativa de controle de patógenos causadores de podridões pós-colheita em manga. O experimento foi realizado no campo experimental Bebedouro, da Embrapa Semiárido em Petrolina, PE, em área com cultivo de mangueira (Mangifera indica L.) ?Kent? com manejo convencional. Após a colheita, os frutos foram higienizados e receberam os tratamentos: 1) Fungicida (tiabendazol 485 g L-1) em dose equivalente a 400 mL 100 L-1; 2) Sacharomyces sp. LF; 3) Pichia kudriavzevii L9; 4) Controle, sem pulverizações. Os frutos foram mantidos em câmara fria (10 ºC) por 21 dias e temperatura ambiente (25 ºC) por 11 dias, com avaliação da incidência e severidade de lesões a cada 2 dias. A aplicação pós-colheita de P. kudriavzevii L9 e Sacharomyces sp. LF reduziu significativamente a incidência de podridões da manga Kent, com eficiência de controle de 31,4% e 48,5%, estatisticamente similar ao fungicida (39,6%). Com a análise da curva de incidência utilizando-se o método de Kaplan-Meyer, observou-se que os frutos tratados apresentaram durabilidade superior a 32 dias e risco de incidência de podridões três vezes menor do que o controle; similar ao tratamento com fungicida.

Avaliação da aptidão das variedades "Tommy Atkins e Kent" para o processamento mínimo de manga.

O Brasil é um dos maiores produtores de manga (Mangifera indica L.), sendo um fruto tropical de grande aceitação pelos consumidores, devido à sua composição nutricional e suas características exóticas. Mesmo assim, seu consumo ainda é considerado pequeno, podendo ser ampliado ao utilizar formas variadas visando aumentar seu grau de conveniência. O processamento mínimo da manga facilita o seu consumo, tornando-o mais prático, com melhor aproveitamento do produto e com agregação de valor. Este trabalho objetivou avaliar a aptidão de duas variedades de manga, Tommy Atkins e Kent, para o processamento mínimo, em quatro dias de armazenamento sob atmosfera modificada em embalagem PET.

Differential reporting and the effect on loan evaluations : an experimental study

This study utilises a mexed design laboratory experiment to test the impact of differential reporting on one group of external financial report users-lenders. The results indicate that the judgments of bank loan officers' assessment of the ability of a borrower to repay, are not significantly affected by differential reporting (in this case, presentation on non-GAAP financial reports compared to GAAP financial reports). However, bankers request additional information from borrowers when non-GAAP financial reports are presented.

Towards an intelligent learning system for the natural born cyborg

We propose to design a Custom Learning System that responds to the unique needs and potentials of individual students, regardless of their location, abilities, attitudes, and circumstances. This project is intentionally provocative and future-looking but it is not unrealistic or unfeasible. We propose that by combining complex learning databases with a learner’s personal data, we could provide all students with a personal, customizable, and flexible education. This paper presents the initial research undertaken for this project of which the main challenges were to broadly map the complex web of data available, to identify what logic models are required to make the data meaningful for learning, and to translate this knowledge into simple and easy-to-use interfaces. The ultimate outcome of this research will be a series of candidate user interfaces and a broad system logic model for a new smart system for personalized learning. This project is student-centered, not techno-centric, aiming to deliver innovative solutions for learners and schools. It is deliberately future-looking, allowing us to ask questions that take us beyond the limitations of today to motivate new demands on technology.

Modelling the process of dialogic communication in public relations: a role-based approach

This paper takes Kent and Taylor’s (2002) call to develop a dialogic theory of public relations and suggests that a necessary first step is the modelling of the process of dialogic communication in public relations. In order to achieve this, extant literature from a range of fields is reviewed, seeking to develop a definition of dialogic communication that is meaningful to the practice of contemporary public relations. A simple transmission model of communication is used as a starting point. This is synthesised with concepts relating specifically to dialogue, taken here in its broadest sense rather than defined as any one particular outcome. The definition that emerges from this review leads to the conclusion that dialogic communication in public relations involves the interaction of three roles – those of sender, receiver, and responder. These three roles are shown to be adopted at different times by both participants involved in dialogic communication. It is further suggested that variations occur in how these roles are conducted: the sender and receiver roles can be approached in a passive or an active way, while the responder role can be classified as being either resistant or responsive to the information received in dialogic communication. The final modelling of the definition derived provides a framework which can be tested in the field to determine whether variations in the conduct of the roles in dialogic communication actually exist, and if so, whether they can be linked to the different types of outcome from dialogic communication identified previously in the literature.

A programming language for software components

Component software has many benefits, most notably increased software re-use; however, the component software process places heavy burdens on programming language technology, which modern object-oriented programming languages do not address. In particular, software components require specifications that are both sufficiently expressive and sufficiently abstract, and, where possible, these specifications should be checked formally by the programming language. This dissertation presents a programming language called Mentok that provides two novel programming language features enabling improved specification of stateful component roles. Negotiable interfaces are interface types extended with protocols, and allow specification of changing method availability, including some patterns of out-calls and re-entrance. Type layers are extensions to module signatures that allow specification of abstract control flow constraints through the interfaces of a component-based application. Development of Mentok's unique language features included creation of MentokC, the Mentok compiler, and formalization of key properties of Mentok in mini-languages called MentokP and MentokL.